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Cleaned Out

MANCHESTER

SEPTEMBER 2

UNDERCARD

AN ABSOLUTE cracker of a left hook from Little Lever’s Jack Cullen floored his former stablemate, the defending British and Commonwealth super-middleweight champion Mark Heffron, in the third round and, try as he might, the Oldham man was unable to recover his senses.

Heffron rose from the hammer blow in centre ring as referee Kieran McCann reached a count of four but then fell once more as the Harrow Weald official was considering whether to call the bout off. The decision to halt matters, by now the only decision, came at 2-43.

Cullen, with Michael Jennings in the corner and with the defeated champion recovered, then celebrated victory in a highly anticipated local

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